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The second question shall a very tasty question. Ishallah to ala sister sana all the way from Australia emails from down under and

She asks about lobsters

Not whether they are halal or haram but a very good question actually and she says that

The cooking technique of a lobster in most countries involves

Cooking them while they are alive and putting them in hot or boiling water

So she says would this be permissible in light of the way that we are cooking the animal and I'll tack another question on brother

Baloch from country unknown

Brother Baloch asks that the general permissibility of seafood does it also include

Alligators or frogs because he mentions

Mashallah in a very explicit email that he was feeling very

adventurous

What in his younger college years and he did partake of eating alligators and frogs and now that he is older

He is wondering whether he has committed a sin

By eating these these animals whether the commander seafood or not

Faisal

Now um I have given a much longer Q&A about seafood you can look this up

But these are very specific questions that again I felt it's useful to to talk about them

I just briefly thought I've already mentioned that the majority position

Which is the hamburgers and shafi'is and malikis

That all of the creatures that live in the ocean

Whether they are the fish of the ocean or the non fish creatures the crustaceans or the crabs or what not

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